College Confers Degrees During Large Commencement
The North Carolina College graduation ceremony awarded 398 diplomas and four doctorates in a historic exercise. Gov. and President Frank P. Graham spoke as Dr. John Reid, Charles Stainback, Hen Straus, and John W. Clark received honorary doctorates. The president urged values and humane ethics as education drives progress in the state.
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M—N. C. College
Stu
Frank Pim
University Carolina
Arrelson
John W. Clark
Isboro
North Carolina Manufact Association
John Reid
Blacksburg
Virginia Polytechture
Charles B. Stainback
False Teeth Relief Powder Promises Secure Comfort
Ad claims false teeth will not slip or wobble with a small amount of non acid powder on the dentures. It touts no sour denture breath and easy relief from embarrassment. Sold at drug stores.
Girls State Opens in Greensboro With 225 Delegates
The eighth Tar Heel girls state began at Woman's College Greensboro with 225 junior delegates from eight communities. Miss Louise Alexander led a discussion on the party system as the group plans a full election simulation and a mock general assembly in Raleigh later the week. The program is sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary of North Carolina.
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Greensboro
Woman's College
Louise Alexander
North Carolina
Raleigh
General Assembly
Cherry
The
American Legion Auxiliary of
Truman Accused of Building Political Fences
Washington, June 9. Republicans accuse President Truman of trying to build political fences in a Kansas City speech that outlined a broad domestic welfare program and criticized Congress for cutting appropriations. Senator Dworshak of Idaho says reclamation funding has become entangled with politics.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Dworshak
Idaho
French Union Leaders Hint At Peace Plan
In Paris on June 9 union leaders offered a tentative peace bid amid a nationwide rail strike that halted passenger service. The government, silent on negotiations, prepared an expanded substitute network of buses, private cars, and Air France flights as Ramadier stalled talks until trains resume. Commuters in Paris number about 680,000.
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Paris
France
National Railroad Workers Federation
Paul Ramadier
Transportation Ministry
Air France
Government Line
Black man jailed in Patsboro case of apparent assault
Nathaniel C. Lestwick a 21 year old Black man is in Woodbury county jail awaiting grand jury action on a charge tied to a reported incident. A 20 year old expectant mother identified him as the person who confronted her in an automobile with her husband bound in the back seat.
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Paulsboro
N. J
Nathaniel C. Lestwick
Woodbury
Hollywood’s world of perfect housekeepers in film studios
Central Press correspondent describes studio prop departments as the skilled heart of movie production. Tom Little heads a vast prep unit with over 2,000,000 listed items and solves tough jobs from re creating Santa letters to fabricating 3,100 artificial poppies on a sound stage.
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Hollywood
Tom Little
FBI
Thirty-Fourth Street
Santa Claus
Edmund Gwenn
Tom
Santa
John Ford
Monument Valley
Ariz
Dles
Little
Dick Haymes
Frank
13 Rue Madeleine
Boston
Washington
California
Sicilians Still Rely On Carts Despite Modern Roads
In Palermo and along the Messina-Palermo coast the horse drawn cart and carrozze share streets with electric buses and automobiles. Palermitano cabbies like Mariano Nenne report dwindling business due to fodder costs and absent tourists, while highways remain clogged by high sided carts and mule teams.
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Palermo
Sicily
Messina
Palermitani
Liquidation Favored for Federal Housing Office
Washington June 3 The house appropriations committee recommended liquidating the office of federal housing expediter by month end citing market saturation and expected prize reductions. It also curbed National Housing Agency activities and urged TVA to repay 348,239,240 dollars in 40 years for power facilities.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Office of Federal Housing
National Housing Agency
Congress
Tennessee Valley Authority
Neat Profit From 149 Hens Reported
County agent Neill M. Smith notes a profit of 405.91 for six months from 149 hens kept by R. W. Chinault of Dobson Rt. 1. The flock produced an average 101 eggs per bird, totaling 837.61 in egg value, with feed costs at 405.91 leaving a net return of 2.71 per hen.
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Dobson
Neill M. Smith
State College Extension Service
R. W. Chinault
Surry County
Rt. 1
Helium Discovery on Sun and Earth Timeline
Helium was first identified on the sun during the 1868 solar eclipse. It was not found on Earth until 1895 in the mineral jasperite.
Norman Armour Named Assistant Secretary of State
President Truman nominates Norman Armour to replace Aiphen Braden as assistant secretary of state. Armour, 59, British born career diplomat, previously ambassador to Argentina in 1939. White House statement by Eben Ayers implies duties similar to Braden's without exact specification.
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Washington
Truman
Norman Armour
Aiphen Braden
Armour
Argentina
White House
Braden
Eben Ayers
Ayers
Network Programs Time Adjustment Notice
Eastern standard times are given. Subtract one hour for central, two hours for mountain. Some local stations adjust relay times to local schedules. Last minute changes not included.
Evening Radio Schedule Highlights and Themed Dramas
A dense listing of radio programs for Monday June 9 detailing evening hours across networks. Reads like a chronological card with show titles, hosts, and times from CBS and ABC lineups including News Reports America Serenade Inner Sanctum and The Radio Theater Hour.
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Eric Sevareid
Newa
Che vetWork
Nbe
Lowell Thomas
Nbe World News
Cbs
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Cbe Dance Music Orch
Dbhs
Henry J. Tayor
Kaltenborn
Nbe Sports
Cbe
Howard Barlow
Joan Davis
Scotland Yard
Cba
Voorhees
Gueat
Goodman and Borge
Guy Lombardo
Nbe Reen Guild
Cde Ish and Hunt Club
Dr. LQ. Quis
Bob Hawk
WHPE Radio Schedule Listing With Program Times
A dense listing shows WHPE and WHEE programs from morning to sign off, including News at 6 stations, Blue Ridge Buddies, Sunrise Salute, Breakfast Patrol, and various music hours. Multiple acts like George Barnes Octet Freddy Martin Orchestra and Sammy Kaye Orchestra appear alongside Newsreels, fashion, and sports segments.
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WHPE
Blue Ridge Buddies
Breakfast Patrol
WHEE
George Barnes
Joe Schirmer
Freddy Martin
Bill Currie
Bertha Lindall Cone Dies at 91 in Blowing Rock
Greensboro widow Bertha Lindall Cone former wife of Moses H. Cone and co-founder Ceasar Cone of Proximity Manufacturing died at her Blowing Rock summer home. A Baltimore native, she moved to Greensboro in 1893 and founded the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Trust in 1911, a fund estimated at 15 million dollars.
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Greensboro
Bertha Lindall Cone
Cone Mill
Blowing Rock
Baltimore
Cone
Moses H. Cone
Ceasar Cone
Proximity Manufacturing Company
Williamson Staples of banking circles dies after illness
Williamson Staples, 58, a Reidsville North Carolina native known in North Carolina and Virginia banking, died in Norfolk after a three week illness. He began at Citizens Bank in Reidsville, later served as vice president and cashier at Branch Banking and Trust in Wilson, headed Bank of Lexington, and joined United Bank and Trust in Greensboro before moving to Virginia in 1933 as RFC Richmond division assistant manager.
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Williamson Staples
Norfolk
Reidsville
N. C
North Carolina
Virginia
Citizens Bank
Reids Ville
Branch Banking and Trust Company
Wilson, N. C
Bank of Lexington
N.C
Lexington
United Bank and Trust Company
Greensboro
Richmond
The
RFC
Nurse Idell Buchan Dies After Illness at 60
Idell Buchan of Raleigh veteran public health nurse and consulting nurse for the North Carolina state board of health died today at Moore County General Hospital after an operation 11 weeks ago. She served with the state health department nearly four decades. Funeral services set for 3 p.m. tomorrow at Old Bethesda Church near Aberdeen, with burial in the family plot there.
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Idelis Buchan
Pinehurst
Idell Buchan
Raleigh
Moore County General Hospital
Dell
North Carolina
North Carolina State Board of Health
State Health Department
Old Bethesda Church
Aberdeen
Old Bethesda
Man Is Jailed In Shooting
Mrs. Cora Elizabeth McBride 55 of Flat Rock remained in critical condition at Martin Memorial hospital while her son in law James Madison Hall 26 was jailed charged with assault with intent to kill after a rifle bullet struck McBride at her parents home Saturday night Hall was estranged from his wife and held without bail as the victim showed no improvement.
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McBride
Confusing Scope of Agriculture Described by Magazine
The American Magazine notes the department of agriculture is vast with 10,000 employees in Washington and seven times that in the field. It says even top officials struggle to know what their assistants do due to the department’s broad responsibilities.
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Washington
Ins
Department of Agriculture
American Magazine
City Buys First City Owned Bulldozer
The city received a 12 ton, 4300 dollar bulldozer the first owned by the city and to be operated by the public works department. Director Silas McBee said it would pay for itself quickly by replacing private bulldozer work costing about ten dollars per hour. Seabee veterans will apply tactics to complete a long backlog of projects.
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Public Works
Silas McBee
McBee
Seabee Veterans of
South Pacific
Executor's Notice in North Carolina Estate
Executor under the will of Norman D. Lippincott of High Point Guilford County North Carolina invites all claimants to exhibit claims to Wachovia Bank and Trust Company Trust Department High Point by June 10 1948 to avoid loss of rights Debtors to estate must pay promptly This notice is dated June 9 1947 and runs through 1948.
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Norman D. Lippincott
High Point
Guilford County
North Carolina
Trust Department of Wachovia Bank, and Trust Company
Wachovia Bank
High Poinit
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
Police Theory is Babies Die Accidentally
MASSILLON OHIO JUNE 9 four to six small children in Massillon City hospital were questioned by Police Chief Stanley W Switter who said the deaths of two infant girls with skull fractures appeared accidental Funeral services were set for 10 week old Diana J Brand and nine week old Rosemary Morton the sole occupants of room 407 where they were found by a nurse The chief said three other children in a sun room on the same floor denied being in the hallway and offered no tangible evidence.
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Massillon
Ohio
Massillon City Hospital
Stanley W. Switter
Diana J. Brand
Rosemary Morton
Switter
Pediatrics
Father of Man Sought By Mob Succumbs
Alfred Bush 66, who guided his son Godwin to surrender to the FBI and Northampton County prosecutor after a lynch mob threatened him, died Friday evening in a field near Rich Square while cultivating corn. Godwin Bush wandered 48 hours in swamp woods before seeking help May 25. Rev. W. H. Johnson coordinates his funeral. Alfred and two FBI agents aided the peaceful surrender at the farmhouse.
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Rich Square
Alfred Bush
Godwin
Buddy” Bush
FBI
Northampton County
Ead
W. H. Johnson
AME
Ernest R. Tyler
Alfred
Merchants Plan June Meeting In Raleigh
The North Carolina Merchants Association will hold its 45th annual convention in Raleigh on June 16 and 17 with about 250 attendees. Also meeting with the merchants will be the Associated Credit Bureaus and the Association of Women’s Breakfast Clubs.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Merchants Association
Associated Credit Bureaus
The
Association of Women's Breakfast Clubs
Panic Averted In Movie Blaze At Center Theatre
Fire at Center theatre in Mount Olive destroyed the film and equipment but caused no injuries as patrons evacuated in an orderly fashion. Theatre operator Harry Cook reported the damage and set an estimated loss.
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Mount Olive
Center Theatre
Harry Cook
Four Thousand Children to See The Lost Colony
Four thousand children are expected to visit Manteo this summer to view The Lost Colony, continuing a program begun by Mrs. Elizabeth Dillard Reynolds of Winston-Salem. Last year over twelve hundred children toured Paul Green’s symphonic drama about the first English settlement in the new world, with housing at the air station used by the navy in World War II.
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Manteo
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